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- Title
A Practical Method for Slice Spacing Measurement Using the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Computed Tomography Performance Phantom.
- Authors
Anam, Choirul; Naufa, Ariij; Dwihapsari, Yanurita; Toshioh Fujibuchi; Dougherty, Geoff
- Abstract
Background: The slice spacing has a crucial role in the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) images in sagittal and coronal planes. However, there is no practical method for measuring the accuracy of the slice spacing. Purpose: This study proposes a novel method to automatically measure the slice spacing using the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) CT performance phantom. Methods: The AAPM CT performance phantom module 610-04 was used to measure slice spacing. The process of slice spacing measurement involves a pair of axial images of the module containing ramp aluminum objects located at adjacent slice positions. The middle aluminum plate of each image was automatically segmented. Next, the two segmented images were combined to produce one image with two stair objects. The centroid coordinates of two stair objects were automatically determined. Subsequently, the distance between these two centroids was measured to directly indicate the slice spacing. For comparison, the slice spacing was calculated by accessing the slice position attributes from the DICOM header of both images. The proposed method was tested on phantom images with variations in slice spacing and field of view (FOV). Results: The results showed that the automatic measurement of slice spacing was quite accurate for all variations of slice spacing and FOV, with average differences of 9.0% and 9.3%, respectively. Conclusion: A new automated method for measuring the slice spacing using the AAPM CT phantom was successfully demonstrated and tested for variations of slice spacing and FOV. Slice spacing measurement may be considered an additional parameter to be checked in addition to other established parameters.
- Subjects
PHYSICISTS; COMPUTED tomography; ALUMINUM plates; SPIRAL computed tomography; ANATOMICAL planes
- Publication
Journal of Medical Physics, 2024, Vol 49, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
0971-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/jmp.jmp_155_23